These
pieces were made in my senior year at UCLA's art school. They were inspired
by Chinese funerary objects, Mexican folk pottery and early Etruscan ceramic
objects I had seen in the British Museum in London.

All
of the adjacent objects--the majolica pitchers, black punch bowls, service
pieces and miniature apothecary jars, were made as part of my "exploration"
of the Disco Island cultural artifacts project. The service pieces were
used at the gallery opening party for the Disco Unit project. Follow the
link at right for more about Disco Unit and the Disco Isles.